... MERLE OBERON (in private life, Lady Korda) and DAME MAY WHITTY introduce Chinese airmen to the boys in the canteen. GEORGE RAFT does his bit as a washer-up at the famous Stage Door Canteen Stage and screen actress HELEN HAYES helps to entertain two sailors and introduces them to a Junior Hostess. GYPSY ROSE LEE, the celebrated striptease,' does her act for the benefit of the enthusiastic boys ...

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... C. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King Visits V.C.'s Grave DURING his recent tour of North Africa the King visited the grave of the late Lord Lyell. When he got home he asked his private secretary, then Sir Alexander Hardinge, to write to Lady Lyell telling her of his visit and of all he had heard out there of her husband's great bravery. He said in the letter that he had heard ...

... 1 1 has been said that farmers fatten most when famine reigns. Be that as it may, during four years of war, with possible starvation staring us in the face, it is largely due to the magnificent efforts of landowners and farmers in Great Britain that we still enjoy such a high standard of living. Mr. Michael Cox, laird of 1. aster Dcnoon, in Angus, works hard in the good cause, cultivating ...

... Officers of an M.T.B. Flotilla D. R. Stuart Front rote Lis. I. Trelaicney, N. S. Gardner, Ll.-Cdr. P. G. C. Dickens, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., Cdr. T. Kerr, R.N., Lts. J. Wecden D.S.C., J. L. Fraser, T. Neill, D.S.C. Middle row Lt. A. C. Jensen, Sub-Lts. B. H. Gerrard, G. N. Fish, Mid. E. H. Legal, Sub-Lts. (E.) D. L. Pickard, H. G. Franklin, R. Morgan, J. II. Saunders. Back row Sub-Lts. R. ...

... ECONOMIES IN WARTIME i 0$ aae f oi Womm Su CMD. ^B^CJCK^. A trio of hats. Top right: emerald- green corded silk lined black velvet, with a veil. Top left: wine-coloured felt with Argus quills. Bottom left a hat of chenille and ribbon. Swan Edgar A quartette of handbags. Pieces of antique Mandarin's coat have been used for above. There are no two alike. Peter Robinson ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A TOURING American go-getter noticed a lazy- Indian chief lolling at the entrance to his wigwam somewhere out west. Chief, remonstrated the go-getter, why don't you get a job in a factory? Why? grunted the chief. Well, you could earn a lot of money. Maybe thirty or forty dollars a week. Why? insisted the chief. Oh, if you worked hard and saved your money ...

... CIVILIANS ALSO SURRENDER IN TOTAL WAR The Growing Fear Throughout Germany of What May Happen when the Allies Finally Triumph. By FERDINAND TUOHY BECAUSE the unconditional surrender fiat of Casablanca did not require to be enlarged upon beforehand, at least publicly, for the Italians to cease fighting us, does not prove that it should be retained as the last word for Germans also. There were ...

... Recent Pictures from Enemy Territory, Showing What is Going On Within the Fortress Europa, Now Under Threat of an Allied Invasion THE NAZIS MAKE HOLLAND 41 INVASION-PROOF by the ruthless destruction of buildings in The Hague t The ruined Duinoordkerk on the outskirts of the city, where Queen Wilhelmina occasionally Worshipped WHAT REMAINS OF THE HOUSE OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, DR. ...

... --Found Abandoned in Sicily The picture reproduced above comes from Regalbuto, in the Island of Sicily it was taken in the Cemetery, where the gun had been placed as one of the German outer defences of the hill-town, and it shows a 20-mm. anti-aircraft gun of an unfamiliar type. A complete drawing of it appears on the right. The gun may appear to have been designed awkwardly, but it has ...

... ^jnc of the reasons for the recent successes of Allied bombers has been the perfect co-operation with the fighter escorts which take them out as far as practicable and then meet them over the French coast on their journey home. Over the target, of course, the bombers are unescorted, as the fighters' range does not permit of their going so far. But casualties can be, and are, averted once the ...

... I n all of the Seven Seas, it would appear as if, during recent months, the Allies have finally got the upper hand over the U-boats. Admiral Lutzow, Germany's naval spokesman, admitted as much during a recent wireless review of the difficulties now facing the enemy's under-water craft. The Admiral declared that the Atlic' nLmn and naval craft force the U-boat to dive. If it stays on the ...